Eleven ships of the French Navy have borne the name Renard, after the Fox or the character Reynard. The name was also popular for privateers.

Naval ships , a fire ship.Roche, vol.1, p.375 , a 16-gun corvette, deleted from Navy lists in 1748. (1762), a 20-gun ship, sold in 1780. , a corvette captured by the British in 1780. , formerly the captured British privateer Fox.Roche, vol.1, p.376 , a 12-gun lugger. She appears to have been converted to a schooner; if so, she was the vessel that captured in 1803 and that became , later renamed to HMS Crafty. The Spanish captured Crafty in 1807. , a 16-gun . (1829), an 8-gun . (1866), a second-class aviso. (1916), an auxiliary patrol boat.Roche, vol.2, p.418 (1918), a .

See also Renard Bleu (1917), formerly the American tug Helen Hope, which the French Navy purchased in 1918.

Privateers Renard, of Dieppe, was a two-masted vessel armed with one gun and five swivel guns, and carrying a crew of 29 men. The sloop captured her on 2 July 1747. Renard was a cutter of 10 guns and 71 men, belonging to Guadeloupe, that captured on 7 August 1795 off Martinique. was a privateer that captured on 12 November 1797 on the Irish station. The Royal Navy took her into service under her existing name and sold her in 1807. Renard was a French privateer lugger that captured on 12 January 1800. Renard was a privateer sloop of three guns and 15 men that Surinam captured on 26 March 1800. Renard was a French privateer that the hired armed lugger Nile captured on 1 November 1800 off Folkestone. Renard was a privateer lugger, pierced for 10 guns, that , , and the cutter captured near Saint Aubin's Bay on 20 April 1801. Renard was a French privateer captured on 16 November 1802 by a British squadron in the Mediterranean. Renarde (or Renard) was a French privateer lugger that captured on 7 November 1807. Skylark shared the capture with and the hired armed cutter Countess of Elgin, with which she was in company. Renard was a felucca-rigged privateer of one 6-pounder gun and 47 men that the boats of captured on 8 February 1808 off Santiago de Cuba. Renard was a privateer cutter of six guns and 24 men that and captured on 2 December 1810. Renard, launched in 1812, was a privateer cutter owned by Robert Surcouf.

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